Awesome: Type treatment steps

I’ve had a few people ask me about the typeface used on my Awesome poster, so I decided to post a few different versions I created as I built the 3D chrome effect. The type was 100% handmade in Illustrator CS4, no fonts involved. I’ve only attempted this a few times in the past and took this opportunity to really push the vectors. The inspiration comes from Judas Priest and Metallica’s Ride the Lightning.

So, I’ll let the images above do the talking. Nothing really advanced here, just a few shapes, skews and gradients. Enjoy!

Very nice case study. It is intereting how the first one works better than the second. The brain just fills in the extra letter stroke but when its drawn in it looks crazy. I’m really a fan of the wavy highlight line. It adds a lot more depth.

This is awesome! (no pun intented)
All these steps were done only in Illustrator?
I’m trying to do something a little similar and I’m having problems with step 5… It would be great if you could make a little tutorial sometime, thanks!